Delong Nickel Phase I power station is a 530 MW coal power station in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is operated by PT Virtue Dragon Nickel Industry [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 663k homes (estimated). It ranks #81 of 401 Indonesia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2018, it is around 8 years old — recently built. In context, coal supplies about 61.5% of Indonesia's electricity; the national grid averages 680 gCO₂/kWh (18.1% low-carbon) (2024).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_coa_delongnickeli_indon.
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capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000104617; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 530 MW, Delong Nickel Phase I power station is well above the median coal plant in Indonesia (220 MW). Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PT Virtue Dragon Nickel Industry [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 3.9°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #57 largest coal power plant of 191 in Indonesia by capacity.
Indonesia has 191 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 101,995 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -3.907537, 122.419265 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Delong Nickel Phase I power station is a 530 MW coal power plant in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, commissioned in 2018.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 663,257 homes (estimated).
Delong Nickel Phase I power station is operated by PT Virtue Dragon Nickel Industry [100%].
